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Training Peers Improves Social Outcomes for Some Kids with ASD
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) who attend regular education classes may be more likely to improve their social skills if their typically developing peers are taught how to interact with them than if only the children with ASD are taught such skills. According to a study funded by the...
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Focus on Video Modeling Techniques for Inexpensive, Fast and Customized Solutions for Improving Social Skills
When my sister and I began Social Skill Builder in 1999, we were looking for a way to bridge the social language gap to help kids with ASD, Asperger’s and other learning disabilities achieve success in social situations. Social Skill Builder has created a series of learning tools that use videos...
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Computerized Health Games to Promote Social Perceptual Learning in Autism
Many individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) struggle to read nonverbal social cues, such as facial expressions, and often have difficulty recognizing a person's identity from their face. New computerized video games being developed by the Center for Autism Research (CAR) at The...
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A Look Inside the Hidden Curriculum
The hidden curriculum is assumed knowledge - the expectations, rules or guidelines that are not directly taught because they are universally known (Garnet, 1984; Hemmings, 2000; Jackson, 1968; Kanpol, 1989; Myles, Trautman, & Schelvan, 2004). It also addresses the incongruities of how skills...
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Early Intervention for Children with Autism Improves Social and Communication Skills
Research Pinpoints Early Signs of Autism and Develops Key Intervention Programs for Toddlers Autism is the nation’s fastest growing developmental disorder, with current incidence rates estimated at 1 in 110 children. This year, more children will be diagnosed with autism than AIDS,...
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Using Typical Peers as Role Models to Help Improve Social Skills for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) typically display great difficulties in social communication and social interaction skills. These skills are core deficits which quite often impede their interactions with peers and adults. Children on the spectrum often fail to interpret...
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Social Skills and Asperger’s Syndrome: “Big Picture” Thinking
By definition, children with Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) have problems with social skills. Books and programs teach a wide variety of social skills, everything from greetings to compromising on play dates, giving a compliment to accepting criticism. There are many reasons why these programs face...
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Using Applied Behavior Analysis to Improve Social Functioning of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Hillside Family of Agencies, a provider of care for youth and families in Central and Western New York, has been utilizing aspects of the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) method for many years. Recently, the organization has more widely practiced this therapeutic approach to help children with...
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Ask the SLP – You’ve Been Told Your Child Needs Social Skills… Now What?
This article will provide answers to some important questions parents may have after learning that their child would benefit from social skills group therapy. Question: Why are social skills groups important? Answer: Social skills groups provide children with the...
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Social Skills Interventions: Considering Generalization
It is well known that people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have difficulties generalizing newly learned skills. Children with autism frequently cannot apply what they have learned in one situation to a similar - though not identical - situation, especially one related to learned...
